Bürgermeister

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Bürgermeister is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈbʏʁɡɐˌmaɪ̯stɐ]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,587 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Oberhaupt einer Stadt, Gemeinde oder anderen Kommune".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 20 documented wrong-spelling variants for Bürgermeister, with forms such as "bbürgermeister", "brügermeister", and "bügrermeister". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Bürgermeisters", "Bürgermeisterin", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Bürgermeister, spelled B-Ü-R-G-E-R-M-E-I-S-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.